“Sometimes I wonder if we make too much of our presidents. Might it be better if we ignored them a little more… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“In truth, the situation was worse than they realized, and no one perceived this as clearly as Washington. Seeing things as they… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Exercise free will and creative, independent thought not for the satisfactions they will bring you, but for the good they will do… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“In our foreign policy as in our own national life we need less fanfare, less stagecraft and circumventing. We need to talk… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“it seems to me that one of the truths about history that needs to be made clear to a student or to… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
The truth isn't just the facts. You can have all the facts imaginable and miss the truth, just as you can have… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
With the Truman book, I wrote the entire account of his experiences in World War I before going over to Europe to follow his… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Steamboats by this time were becoming a familiar presence on the rivers and coastal waters of America, but not until 1838 did steam-powered ships… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
I feel that history is in many ways the most important of all subjects because it is about everything and because it's about who… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Even mighty states and kingdoms are not exempted. If we look into history, we shall find some nations rising from contemptible beginnings and spreading… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Only TR openly declared his love for the job. “Nobody ever enjoyed the presidency as I did,” he boasted, and by all evidence that… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“s ships Phoenix and Rose, in the company of three tenders, cast off their moorings at Staten Island and started up the harbor under… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“a people may let a King fall, yet still remain a people, but if a King let his people slip from him, he is… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
Why limit yourself to the experience of your own relatively brief time on earth, according to your biological clock, when the whole realm of… — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
“Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We” — David McCullough Copy Share Image
